The House on Wednesday rejected the Senate Democratic budget in a 154-261 vote, with 35 Democrats voting against the blueprint from their upper chamber colleagues.

The Senate Democratic budget was one of three budgets cast aside in a series of votes Wednesday after a debate in which Republicans excoriated President Obama for failing to offer his own budget plan in time for the votes.

House Democrats were instructed to vote for the Senate Democratic budget, but 35 of them defected.

Blue Dog Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) said he voted against the Senate budget because it did not go far enough on entitlements.

“It is not enough entitlement reform in there going forward. It needs to be a more complete and balanced picture and it wasn’t bipartisan in the end of the day,” Schrader told The Hill.

He said he thinks there is an even chance of a deficit grand bargain this summer, but it will not look anything like the House majority or Senate majority budgets.

“Given the fact that none of these bills are going to pass with any bipartisan votes, it begs the question. The president has teed it up. He has talked about entitlement reform–not the Paul Ryan approach–he’s defended some of the tough things in front of the Democrat caucus,” Schrader said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee announced earlier this year that Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick and Ron Barber of Arizona, John Barrow of Georgia, Colin Peterson of Minnesota, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, Jim Matheson of Utah and Nick Rahall of West Virginia are all top pickup opportunities for Republicans in 2014.

Jim Matheson must have heard about this. Find the rest of the wary Dems, here. They may be surprised to learn that they all hate old people and children, or whatever evil it is Democrat Budget Deniers are allegedly guilty of today.

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Conservative alternative budget voted down. Would have balanced budget in JUST FOUR YEARS!

Democrats tried to procedurally trick Republicans into approving the highly-conservative Republican Study Committee budget — 171 members voted “present,” essentially declining to have their votes count in the final tally, meaning the bill only needed a majority of the up or down votes to pass. The final vote was 104 to 132 (Democrats tried such a trick last year and nearly succeeded, so Republicans were more prepared for this time around)

The budget plan would cut discretionary spending to 2008 levels, and then freeze them there until the budget balances in 2017. It also seeks to simplify the tax code and would move Medicare to a premium-support system

Obama is pure show and no “go.” This man is totally incompetent when it comes to financial matters of our country. His past three budgets haven’t garnered a single Democrat vote in the Democrat controlled Senate since 2010. Oh yeah, in 2010 the House was controlled by Dems too and it didn’t pass there either. This year he is working on a month late and he has the audacity to play before work. He goes to Israel and says we need to do this and that and yet, he brings no plans. He appears before Congress and does the same thing – still no plan. He appears before the American people promising this and that – still no plan. He goes to sleep and doesn’t even raise a finger to check with his staff knowing that American’s in Benghazi are fighting for their lives, just so he can go campaign the next day in Vegas – you b@$tard! One thing he has done is to seriously screw up our medical system and in 2014, our economy. Of course, that’s from the largely unintended consequences from his ill-thought out Obamacare plan. It’s only going to get much worse next year. If this guy was even a low level manager in a company, he would have long since been fired for gross incompetence. Goes to show you what opportunities government can provide for people.